How to Buy Bitcoins Anonymously in the US, Instantly

If CISPA or other privacy-busting legislations pass, every detail of our personal lives will be at risk – and you’ll want to buy Bitcoins for safety. Although many of our foundations are rooted in anonymity, everything we see, do and buy may soon be exposed. However, technology always evolves, and anonymity is no exception.

As many already know, Bitcoin is a decentralized, digital currency that can be used like cash. What many people may not already know, however, is that there is no need to hand over all of your information to an exchange to buy bitcoins. It’s already incredibly easy to buy bitcoins anonymously, in less than 10 minutes!

Update: The following is an antiquated method to buy bitcoins anonymously. Currently, the best way to buy bitcoins anonymously is still to use a VPN or Tor and use a service like described by the anonymous member of the Bitcoin community below.

How to Buy Bitcoins Online Anonymously

An anonymous member of the Bitcoin community has contributed these wonderful instructions detailing 6 simple steps to buying Bitcoins with near anonymity in the US.

Andrew is a long-time advocate of privacy and the conservation of the personal realm. He served as the brand manager for an internationally recognized best-selling product prior to co-founding Private Internet Access.

“One of the key features of our service for both clients and for regulatory compliance is the
event log – every single transaction has every single aspect logged to a redundant log of
events which we use for debugging our software, tracking customer funds transfers and doing
internal audits. In the event of an attempt at money laundering or other criminal activity, the
contents of this event log would be valuable evidence to be disclosed to law enforcement.”

firstly, it is not anonymous. Tor can be compromised. Secondly, while you sit there with your 50 bitcoins you paid 500 dollars (useless currency, join the pound, seriously) for, what are you going to do with it? Buy some meth on silkroad? Bitcoins are useless.

Don’t they require your name, address, and phone number to send the money? They do at Wal-Mart. Zip-Zap might not know who sent the money, and the Bank might not know what Bitcoin address you’re depositing to, but a subpoena or other government mandate can link the two, so it’s probably anonymous to anyone except your local government.

yea, if your buying large quantities from Amsterdam or funding Al Queda maybe………if you are using bitcoin via TOR to purchase time from another VPN and then don’t seed too much…extreeeeeemly unlikely…to many torrent lovers that aren’t using VPN…..then too many VPN users paying via credit card….no reason to go after bitcoin users IMHO

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How about you stop using the word BS, you don’t sound tough, you don’t sound edgy, all you sound like a weak faggot, like a reddittor commenting, let alone being rude. use bullcrap or dogshit, dickhead

Once I process this and my BItcoins are sent to my anonymous Tor email, how do I then get them to PIA as payment? Do I send them from my anonymous Tor email to my wallet then pay PIA via normal methods? Or can I forward that email from Tor email to PIA for payment?

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No matter what you try to do, at some point you have to hand over cash in person.

I don’t know what it’s like in other countries, but in the United States there are NO places where you can deposit, receive, or exchange hard currency (e.g. banks, currency exchanges, point-of-sale merchants), without having to stand in front of a camera when you hand over your cash–Just try to find a MoneyPak reseller that doesn’t have cameras covering every register and you’ll see what I mean.

The method outlined by the article above has at least one game-ending flaw: BitInstant REQUIRES a phone number to process the transaction. It’s a few steps into the process, but it’s there. I just tried it.

Since they won’t even allow you to continue without giving a phone number, and there are no public payphones that allow incoming calls anymore, your transaction will be traceable… to somebody.

The US Treasury and their Office of Foreign Assets Control pretty much has everything locked up. If you spend money in the US, unless it’s between private parties, it’s traceable… somehow.

The most secure method (also the most risky) that I can think of is to buy a MoneyPak card and put some cash on it. Use #bitcoin-otc to exchange the MoneyPak for some bitcoins. Once they have been transferred into one bitcoin wallet, immediately transfer them into another one. The encrypted exchange between your two encrypted wallets breaks the chain of traceability–provided you take standard privacy precautions when doing it.

I was still willing to go through with my cash deposit for bitcoins even after an inital 3.99% fee from bitinstant then a $3.95 fee from zipzap but could not find one location that accepted. I even went to the selected payment center. All the telephone numbers to the suggested locations aren’t real numbers. I had no hint of success. I will choose a different method and make sure to avoid zipzap, their false advertising, and their lies.

Hey Hi !
Understanding the concept is easy, but is it possible to purchase solid Bitcoin coins for the collector that we all are. It would add to your idea of bitcoin and impact on the usage of this new concept.
To have in our possession bitcoin coins would accellerate your place in commerce. Coins as a token and not for real currency create a talking point and adds greatly to your favor !

I am interested in your views about this.
This not to entrap…merely as a thought…
Otherwise great idea and I watch with great interest…..
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i did this exactly as you have instructed and i went to 3 different locations all of which requires ID to pay. do you think if i use my real info i can still be anonymous since tormail is anonymous or no?

using cash to buy bitcoins via moneygram at retail stores.
– CVS – using red phone they ask for name, addr, phone #, CVS asks for ID when you make the payment….after all that CVS didn’t work they have had trouble with moneygram last 2 weeks.
-Walmart – no red phone, you fill out another blue paper, with name, addr, phone, then they enter it and give you a reciept…she didn’t ask for ID but she may have forget.
not a big deal I guess but not completely anonymous as advertised….

Bitinstant is currently down for maintenance, so I can’t follow through to answer these questions (and don’t want to play with real money until I understand fully):

1. When the Bitcoins go to your anonymous Tor email, how do you pay them back out to PIA?

2. The PIA Bitcoin invoice screen at BitPay has apparently three options, URI (don’t know how to use that), manual (“Send x.xxxx bitcoins to (temporary address code)”, and a QR code which can be scanned with a mobile phone app like BitcoinSpinner for Android. Scanning works and would send the Bitcoins, but how do you get them from your Tor email address into the BitcoinSpinner in the first place?

3. Finally and maybe most importantly, how is it anonymous if you use your mobile phone (which is identifiable to the person making the transaction) app to scan the QR and transfer the Bitcoins?

I prefer a central bank inflating my currency out of existence. Bitcoins will never work because the Federal Reserve is going to find an UN-mistakable link between bitcoins and the ‘terrists. The entity that can make money out of thin air, stealing the wealth from the nation with the stroke of a pen is not particularly interested in having that power curtailed. Especially when they are abusing that power.

Prepare for blood in the streets to defend your bitcoins. You are walking up to the King and smacking him across the face with a fish. He’s going to scream: “off with his head”. And thusly bit coins will be erased.

Can someone help clear up a misconception I must be having? I went to the site above (bitinstant) and am confused as to why I’m supposed to put my paypal account in as the ‘pay to.’ If I’m going to pay for bitcoins using cash then wouldn’t I be paying that cash into someone ELSE’S paypal account? Why is it asking for me to pay myself. Obviously this can’t be but if someone could clear up my misunderstanding I would be very appreciative.

The paypal option is to have your cash deposit go into your paypal account don’t select this option. In the pay to screen go to bitcoin address if you want the bitcoins to go to your bitcoin address. Also make sure you sign up for a bitcoin address if you don’t have one.

I am currently selling bitcoins at discount prices, as i am going out of business, and am trying to cash out on all my bitcoins ive earned. I have 100+ bitcoins. right now I am selling them for 125/BTC. The value right now according to Mt.Gox, is 160.59/BTC. I accept western union moneygram, or money transfer. If you are insterested in purchasing some btc, please get ahold of me at lewsijerry@gmail.com

I am currently selling bitcoins at discount prices, as i am going out of business, and am trying to cash out on all my bitcoins ive earned. I have 100+ bitcoins. right now I am selling them for 125/BTC. The value right now according to Mt.Gox, is 160.59/BTC. I accept western union moneygram, or money transfer. If you are insterested in purchasing some btc, please get ahold of me at lewsijerry@gmail.com

BitCoins will suffer the same fate of E-Gold back in the early 2000s. The federal reserve and DHS will not allow another ghost banking system to derail the Government’s ability to subjugate the sheeple to a rigged banking system of FIAT currencies. Its just a matter of time before the slow but sure pendulum of Big Brother catches up and shuts down Bitcoin, at least in the US.

With the bank deposit option gone, all other options ask for ID. There’s no way to buy from that site anonymously. BitFloor was another great option, but Bank of America closed their account and they decided to just completely shut down their site. Bitcopia used Wells Fargo and just today their account was closed… Bitcopia thinks they can open a Bank of America account next, but that’s not going to work at all, but if so, not for very long. Using MoneyPak cards on the Bitcoin OTC marketplace or elsewhere is the only anonymous way I can think of that still works right now… Good luck, everyone!

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Bitcoin ATMs show some potential, but for the ones I’ve tried, a passport scan is required and you also have to add in biometrics like a palm or iris scan which seems a bit invasive to me. I just use Bitcoin Gift Card (.org) to buy BTC and pay by Paypal. It takes a few days for the BTC gift cards to arrive through the mail, but otherwise works great.

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